When Megan and her husband, Miran, were planning a career move from California to Kentucky, they envisioned a quiet life in the country. They were eager to embrace pursuits like tending a garden and raising animals—and to do that, they needed just the right property. While touring the house that would eventually become their home, they found it suited them well—but Miran didn't love the creaking stairs. “It was almost a deal breaker for him,” Megan remembers. But the peaceful location was too good to pass up, and the couple relocated to the
